That was an enlightening answer, thank you very much Patrick. -Martin On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8 March 2015 at 00:10, Martin Cigorraga <martincigorr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Yes, it seems that some packages in Fedora pulls down more dependencies >> than I would like; for instance removing the GNOME Desktop group (if it >> actually existed) should only remove everything GNOME-related stuff and >> only that, not whatever else on what it may depend. Conversely, one should >> be able to install X or Wayland separately - at least that's how I used >> with Arch and Gentoo albeit RHEL seems more close to Debian in this regard. >> >> About the question I made, I think it is quite self-explanatory: there >> are groups for every-other Desktop Environment (even one for Window >> Managers) but there's none for GNOME Desktop. Of course I believe one could >> go and remove leftovers by hand, what I say is that's strange - just to say >> something - that there isn't a meta-group that takes care of that. >> > > Red Hat is big contributor to Gnome so Fedora is a Gnome-centered distro. > It supports other DEs but the default assumption is that you're using > Gnome. This is evident from a lot of the documentation as well the > packaging structure as you point out. That said, there's no problem using > another DE and a lot of us do so. We just put up with some the Gnome > components being more or less ever-present as long as they doesn't get in > the way. And of course having them means you can use Gnome-based apps such > as Evolution without having to put up with the weird desktop GUI. > > It would be interesting to find out just what percentage of active users > are on each of the main DEs, but I can't think of a reliable way of doing > that i.e. one not subject to selection bias. > > poc > > poc > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > -- -Martin
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